- Opioid Defendants Facing Hundreds of New Plaintiffs Appeal Judge Polster’s Order—Again.
- State Immune From Damages in Genetic Privacy Dispute, Appellate Court Says
- Pentagon’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was ‘Unlawful Retaliation,’ Federal Court Finds
- EEOC Seeks Faster Process for Federal Worker Bias Claims, Critics Fear Fewer Protections
- Deneys re-elects chair for second term
- How I Made Partner: ‘Speak Up About What You Want and Advocate for Yourself,’ Says Jillian London of Gibson Dunn
- ‘A New Wave of AI Enforcement’: Alabama AG Subpoenas OpenAI in Probe Over Hugging Face Hack
- Legal AI Gets an Upgrade: Inside LexisNexis’ New Innovation Lab
- ‘Unresponsiveness’ and ‘Unclear Goals’ Dog Big Law Marketing Departments—Not to Mention the AI Risks
- Litigation Trends to Watch: Suits Strike at Moonlighting Bans, ‘Made With Avocado Oil’ Claims and Employee Background Checks
- Free Practical Law training for all subscribers
- Freshfields Asia Suffers Another Blow as Latham Lures Hong Kong Dealmakers Grace Huang and Edward Freeman
- ‘We’re Not Playing Games’: Attorney Mark DiCello in Hot Seat Over Paraquat Clients
- With Eyes on SCOTUS’ Emergency Docket, Appellate Equivalents Get Little Attention
- AI Is Turning Corporate Archives Into Valuable Assets. What Could Go Wrong?
- In Latest Slate of AI Partnerships, Law Firms Claim Benefits of Early Access and Collaboration
- Mamdani Revives City Bar’s Role in Judicial Vetting, but Makes It Optional
- HENA Holdings obtains USD 60 million financing for take-private deal
- Norfund invests USD 15 million in East African packaging company
- China designates court for recognition and enforcement of ICSID awards
- Libyan bank challenges Burkina Faso over bank seizure
- Breaching barriers: Singapore High Court allows document production order for counsel disqualification application in Singapore-seated arbitration
- Egypt enacts inaugural hedge fund regulation
- New in-house content: horizon scanning
- ENS snaps up South Africa banking and finance executive
- Nigerian pharma player raises expansion funds
- Top Egyptian microfinance player snapped up for USD 95 million
- Swiss Supreme Court confirms contribution requirement for protected investments under AANZFTA
- Paris Court of First Instance revokes enforcement order allowing seizure of Iraqi Central Bank assets held with Banque de France
- SRA issues warning notice to legal profession on misuse of AI (August 2026)
- Mauritius regulator issues stablecoin guidance
- Afreximbank executes record USD 1.5 billion bond issuance
- Life’s a Beech: Andersen Global and Beech strike collaboration agreement
- Singapore High Court upholds reserved payment approach in construction arbitration pending determination of apportionment questions in parallel JV arbitration
- Top court backs Madagascar expropriation law
- Spencer West snags Africa-focused international finance partner
- Company retains Malaysian nationality despite invalid transfer to another jurisdiction and removal from company register (ICSID)
- Spur ready to spar over multimillion-dollar adverse arbitral award
- First Atlantic Bank expands into Liberia
- Russian court enforces Russian arbitral award in favour of company from “unfriendly state” (Arbitrazh Court of the North Caucasus District)
- NLRB Invites Briefs on Mandatory Employment Arbitration Clauses Including Those with Savings and Confidentiality Provisions
- New practice note on drafting effective arbitration agreements providing for a seat in Saudi Arabia
- Rotterdam District Court stops enforcement of ICSID award against Spanish real estate on formal and immunity grounds
- VIAC publishes updated guidelines for arbitrators under Vienna Rules
- European Commission opens in-depth state aid investigation into arbitration award ordering Spain to pay compensation to JGC Holdings Corporation
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